The former winner of Roland Garros is embarrassed by the “silence” of sporting white after the death of this Black American who was killed by the police in Mi
The former winner of Roland Garros is embarrassed by the “silence” of sporting white after the death of this Black American who was killed by the police in Minneapolis.
“It is an injustice that should sensitize the whole world”. The former athlete and singer, Yannick Noah, has late Sunday, “the silence” of the sports white, after the death of George Floyd in the United States. “It is good that young people are caring for me but what bothers me is that these are all mestizos or blacks,” said on the French tv channel France 2, the former tennis champion, and last French victorious at Roland-Garros, when asked about the positions of his fellow athletes Gael Monfils, Kylian Mbappé or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on this topic.
“Why ? It is an injustice that should raise awareness of all the world,” he added. “There has been both a business more or less stifled. I am certain that the police in general do a very good job, but the black sheep of the time it was a little supported”. Raised on the need for “sportsmen” white-agree on the issue, the former tennis player turned to the song responded : “Yes, because their silence annoys me, it goes further than that.”
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“that reassures me as a métis, is that quite quickly we speak of injustice, he added. Yes, it is a black, it happens since always, but then all of a sudden, there is also the white youth, the younger generation, who realize that it is their future to them, they don’t want to live in that world.” The death of George Floyd in the United States has sparked demonstrations across the world to protest against discrimination against black Americans.
Wave of indignation in the world of sports
Noah, winner of Roland-Garros in 1983, and which has just celebrated its 60 years old, had already published last week a photo of him on his account Instagram, wearing a white T-shirt that read “I can’t breathe, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd”.
In the video of the arrest at the end of which he died, we hear George Floyd, African-American 46-year-old, repeating “I can’t breathe (I cannot breathe)” for a police officer to the floor plate bearing for long minutes her knee on his neck.
Before Noah, the six-time british world champion F1 Lewis Hamilton had lamented the “silence” of the “biggest stars” of the sport “dominated by whites” and the German world champion 2014 football Jerome Boateng was judged to be “desirable” that more athletes were white famous use their fame” to fight against racism.
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The tragedy occurred on may 25 in Minneapolis has sparked a wave of outrage in the sports world, the United States, but also in the rest of the world. In the Bundesliga, this weekend, several clubs have taken a knee on the ground before their matches, in the wake of the French Mönchengladbach Marcus Thuram, who had taken over the last week, the gesture popularized by the player of NFL (League of american football), Colin Kaepernick in 2016 to protest against the police violence done to the Blacks.
Date Of Update: 08 June 2020, 07:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn